I'm never gonna forget my first Vogue shoot.
It was just outside Nashville,
middle of this field,
And basically Annie Leibovitz, who shot the photos,
wanted me to just like dance around in this field
with my guitar and just kind of be myself,
which was so nice.
It's really nice when people tell you to just be yourself.
Down to the fact that when I was on tour,
I used to draw a 13 on my hand
every single night.
And I would draw it on with a sharpie and some eyeliner.
It was a very specific combination.
But I used to just like actually wake up in the morning
And it would be just like imprinted on my face.
Fun fact, how to get sharpie off of your skin: hairspray.
Anyway,
I have drifted so far from the point.
this is a piece on my first Vogue shoot.
It is a freezing cold day in Franklin, Tennessee.
And we are on the middle of nowhere, pretty much.
This is Vogue, the Nashville edition.
Wow, this is cool.
I'm so excited
because this is my first shoot that I've ever done with Annie Leibovitz.
I met her like 15 minutes ago
and she is really, really awesome.
Really, really laid-back.
This is my first Vogue shoot.
So...
It's going really, really well so far.
Like, they told me that I can keep this on my hand.
Like, they want me to keep this.
And I thought they would, for sure,
like, want me to take that off.
Because...
that's what 95%
probably 99% of all photoshoots
would want me to wipe that off.
But they want me to keep the way it was, so...
That's really nice.
About to get really cold.
Really fast.
I met Annie Leibovitz and she was incredibly nice.
And sweet.
She had YouTubed of all kinds of performances of mine.
And paused them where she liked
the poses.
Like where I'd just like throw my hair up on the stage.
She would pause it.
And go: "that's the kind of the photo I wanna get."
We went outside to this field.
It was pretty cold.
We were outside.
The weather was really cloudy.
And just kind of looked terrible.
But Annie was saying:
"No, this is the best.
This is the best weather you can have.
This is great. This is prefect."
And I later saw the photos.
That's...
the best kind of weather we could have that day.
She shot really fast.
I wasn't expecting that she would be done so quickly.
I literally just put on a couple of songs
And I was dancing around, moshing
in the field.
And then, within a minute, we were done.
I was like, oh that's cool.
We just finished. That was the fastest shoot ever.
Thank you so much.
Cool.
So I just wrapped my first Vogue shoot.
And it was so much fun. It was amazing.
I was just dancing around in the field,
blasting music the whole time.
And it was over before I knew it.
We did two set ups.
One where I had like
minimum makeup on it.
And then they,
had me put on
my own lipstick.
It was like the coolest thing in the world that
Vogue, the fashion magazine, is like,
"You can just be yourself.
And put on your own makeup.
And just do whatever.
It was really, really cool.
It was the most laid-back shoot ever.
Love it.
When you releasing an album,
you start really early in the process.
There are a couple different phases of the promotion.
And I like to think of phase 1 as photo shoot phase.
We have the glamorous cover shoot.
This is my second glamorous cover shoot.
that I've ever done.
I am so excited.
We're doing sort of a,
retro, 60s,
glint singer kind of thing.
We have old microphones,
and clothes and stuff.
And they made my hair big which I'm really excited about.
So, wish me luck!
It's really fun to start out
the whole promotion process
with a bunch of fun photo shoots
where they make you look different for every single cover.
For me, it's really important to have music on
during the photo shoot because
in a sense, you're dancing
in front of a whole bunch of people
because for a cover, they need your body to be in, like,
kind of curved or a different shape than it.
Than every other cover.
So they're always trying to get you to
look at a different way
or different, just kind of, different formation or whatever.
So, for me, the best way to do that
is just dance much.
And I just kind of turn it into posing/dancing.
which doesn't feel so much like posing
Cause' there is music on.
Music makes everything sort of like a performance.
I had a few really hectic weeks
of photo shoots almost everyday.
For me, I try not to think of that as work.
I just think of it as like
free hair and makeup tip day.
So here I am,
on my fifth magazine shoot in one week.
We've literally shot five covers in ONE WEEK.
Well, today we're shooting Taylor Swift's
3rd Seventeen Magazine cover.
And we're doing it in her home town
of Nashville, Tennessee.
So this is the before
And the after it will probably I'll have better posture.
And sort of be cover ready
Maybe. We'll hope.
We're hoping for cover ready.
But I come in and kind of,
all scrap like this.
Ok, I am gonna set Taylor's hair
with some velcro rolls
give it a lot of volume.
Then take an iron and just sort of,
really define a way
a wave and not too tight curl this time
Just really beautiful flowing hair.
So I am fully Seventeen up.
They relaxed my hair.
They made it a lot less curly.
This is what ends up being the after effect
of two hours of hair and makeup.
So I am gonna go do a cover try.
I am in a red dress.
It's all looking very promising.
Taylor's so great
'Cause she is so low maintenance too.
You know,
She just shows up.
She's totally professional.
And I also don't think that a lot of stars have that quality.
I mean, she's on time.
She knows what she needs to do.
And she wants to get it done.
And she knows the point of like everything that she does.
I used to get really fuzzy about like,
oh...that's not that cute...
But now I am just going on like
put whatever you want on me.
Or just do whatever it is that you wanna do my face.
You wanna put painted polka dots on it.
You can do that.
You wanna make my hair big or make it small?
Cut it.
No, I'm kidding.
They don't cut my hair.
That's like the one thing that they are not allowed to do.
'Cause the hair is the power source.
I am nothing without it.